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From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>,
	"Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>,
	Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>,
	Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>,
	Byron Stanoszek <bstanoszek@comtime.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.32-rc3: low mem - only 378MB on x86_32 with 64GB. Why?
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:06:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910061106.33718.tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0910051727420.3432@localhost.localdomain>

On Tuesday 06 October 2009 01:30:51 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Jeff Chua wrote:
> > Loud and clear. And appreciated all the replies. I think it's time for
> > upgrade!
>
> As Byron said, it really should be sufficient to just upgrade the kernel
> (I presume that you already have a CPU that is 64-bit capable: not very
> many boards with old CPU's can even fit 64GB of ram).
>
> In fact, I wish more people did that, just so that we'd get better
> coverage of the 32-bit compat code. We occasionally find issues there,
> although I think it's getting rarer.

Maybe convince some distro to offer this setup as an option at least? I always 
wondered why no one has, or maybe I missed it.

Tvrtko


  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-06 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-05 15:57 2.6.32-rc3: low mem - only 378MB on x86_32 with 64GB. Why? Jeff Chua
2009-10-05 18:12 ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]   ` <b6a2187b0910051715y4ee63503y148ba2d7e24cad8e@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-06  0:30     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-06 10:06       ` Tvrtko Ursulin [this message]
2009-10-06 11:01         ` Frans Pop
2009-10-14 21:32           ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-10-06 12:59       ` David Woodhouse
2009-10-06 14:26         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-11  9:08           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found]       ` <b6a2187b0910052312o662642b2teded3d19548b9151@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-06 14:35         ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]           ` <b6a2187b0910080926x303d3c9em8f70632fb19b6509@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-08 16:35             ` Dave Hansen
     [not found]           ` <b6a2187b0910090928r648169dax86178a3e8b8c2f21@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-10 18:10             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-10-10 18:37               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-11  9:06           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-11 17:34             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-06 16:50   ` Yuhong Bao
2009-10-05 18:42 ` Byron Stanoszek
2009-10-05 19:15 ` Dave Hansen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-10-05 19:42 Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-10-05 20:31 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
     [not found] <drYiu-Pj-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2009-10-05 20:05 ` Daniel J Blueman

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